Stokely Carmichael At UC Berkeley - Black Power (Full)

*This is not a historical or sociopolitical 'analysis,' this would best be though of as a linguistic/rhetorical 'analysis' that looks at language use and how it affects the mind.*
It is often times too easy to fall victim to unsophisticated and illogical stereotypical thinking. Labeling oppressors white, making over generalizations such as color "The White Man" and "The Black Man" and "White society" is not accurate for what should be obvious reasons. When listening to this speech, try to disseminate the color coding. Just short of being color blind, we must realize that people are people, flesh and bone.The major problem with low-brow propagandic labeling is that it distorts reality and as propaganda, it unfortunately works.

"We are a nation of thieves" Who brought slavery to America? (Brittan?)
Who supported the "Underground Railroad?" ( The oppressors?)
Who fought to keep slavery? (Rich plantation owners in the south who relied on the cheap labor? The nation whose profits stemmed largely from the exportation of slaves? racists/separatists - assassination of Lincoln?)
Who fought to abolish slavery? (Civil War?)

To remove poverty you must remove its root; money and greed breed poverty and more money is not the answer. Destroy monetary systems - Communism? redistribution of wealth - Huey Long?, education!

Why are/were humans with dark skin considered to be less then a person? (propaganda - just think what advertising is designed to do?, capitalistic philosophies?)

"This nation can not justify any-longer its existence, we have become the policemen of the world..." (Noam Chomsky)

"it is we who are the hardest workers, and the lowest paid..." I think here he is glazing over the plight of the Irish, 'Native' Americans, Jews, low-class white Americans, Chinese, and many others who have been exploited.

"This country is not God and it can not rule the world!"

"Who has power, who has the power to make their acts legitimate?"

"We have to begin to develop a political sophistication! do not be a parrot; the two party system is the best system."

"We must question the values of this society! and I maintain that black people are the best people to do that." (How can skin-color qualify someone for philosophical thought?)

"American students are perhaps the most politically unsophisticated students in the world!"

He makes an excellent point @40:00 min about a little know method of exploitation (this can be reaffirmed in the book Confessions on an Economic Hit Man) and touches on the bias publication of news for the benefit of the producers and the affiliations of those producers.

Modus Operandi:
Life is bell-curves.
Don't speak about it, be about it.

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[DIOPJR]

By the way, Black people have historically been the most exploited segment of the labor force in this country, bar none. Nobody would deny that others groups have been exploited, least of all Ture.

[DIOPJR]

What you're doing is falsely ascribing a Manichean view of racial relations to Kwame Ture. Just because he believed in self-determination for Black people, and just because he recognized the psychological necessity of organizing among ourselves, does not mean he hated white people.

[DIOPJR]

The oppressors *were* white people. Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) did not mean that all white people were responsible for suffering, but to pretend that it's a "generalization" that the white majority was indifferent or hostile to segregation is as ridiculous as saying that "evangelical Christians" are not part of the base of the Republican party, just because all evangelicals are not Democrats.

[NoNationalityNeeded]

@ftovell

My self appointed critics, please do not be so cryptic; please try to be more specific in your criticisms of our thoughts instead of hiding behind your face-saving generalities or do not waste your/my time with your broad, under-defined quips.

Thank you,

NNN